Pigment & Resin Technology: Volume 8 Issue 6

Thermal fluid heating systems for resin plants

J.A. Rigby, BTechCEng, MIChemE

The heating of resin kettles has traditionally been achieved using steam, induction heating or direct firing. In recent years, thermal fluid heating has been a further option…

Coatings update: new proprietary products Part 2

AMERICUS

An interesting new marine coating developed in Finland is particularly useful for ice‐going vessels such as ferries which operate in cold areas and ice‐breakers. Over 30 Finnish…

European coil coating industry looks to the future

The EUROPEAN COIL COATING ASSOCIATION (ECCA) which represents the European organic coating industry held its General Meeting at the Melia Castilla Hotel in Madrid on 23rd‐25th…

Studies on blends of polystyrene glycol and alkyds in surface coatings

Suman Pasari, Sushil Chandra

Polystyrene glycol was prepared and incorporated into nigerseed oil and castor oil alkyds representing semi‐drying and non‐drying type alkyds respectively. Compatibility of…

Equipment

P. W. Allen & Co., 253 Liverpool Road, London N1 1NA, have announced a new drum viewer: Model DV‐45. This is a British‐made short cranked hand‐held probe that can be inserted…

Materials

Barber‐Greene England Ltd., manufacturers of road making machinery, have found an unusual use for Th. Goldschmidt Ltd.'s Reinau EW 99DR epoxy resin based seamless flooring.

Industry

Akzo Chemie is now marketing its Epilink range of Epoxy curing agents in the U.K.

People

Mike Wood has returned to Fishburn Printing Ink Co. Ltd. as national sales director. For the last nine years he was with inmont, Fishburn's parent company, in South Africa with…